. Pioneer Remembered CasNews columnist John Charters reflects on the late Frank Richardson, a pioneer of Castlegar... B3 SunFest Activities A grand parade was the highlight of Saturday's SunFest ‘85 .events_ in Castlegar... A3 draw were seven, nine, 11, jackpot prize of $3,543,326.30. The $500,000 winning number in-F cial lottery draw is 2738653. The six winning numbers in Saturday's Lotto 6/49 16, 43 and 46. The bonus number was 34. There was no winner of the riday’s Provin- Museum The Canada West Museumobile is visiting Castlegar this: weekend Se Castlegar UNDAY VOL. 38, No. 58 CASTLEGAR, BRITISH COLUMBIA, SUNDAY, JULY 21, 1985 News WEATHERCAST Sunny today and Monday with light and variable winds, .highs near 36°. ae 50 Cents 2 Sections (A&B) CAUSED BY TRUCKS? Residents have | dust problem | By SIMON BIRCH Staff Writer MISS CASTLEGAR . . . Sheryl Lee, Miss.Rotary, was —crowned-Miss Castlegar “85 ar the queen pageant — Friday night: She was the pick over six other con- SUNFEST '85 Lee wins By CasNews Staff Miss Rotary Sheryl Lee was crowned Miss Castlegar 1985 at the annual Queen pageant Friday night at Stanley Humphries Secondary School. ‘The seventeen-year-old was the judges’ pick over six other contestants. Laura Adams, Miss CKQR, was crowned first princess and Sheri Le Roy, -Miss Downtown Business ‘Association, was named-second princess. Tanya Rogers, Miss Castlegar Lions, was voted Miss Congeniality by the other competitors. ‘Also running. were Lynn-Ann Olsenberg, Miss Century 21, Angela Verhaeghe, Miss Gyro, and Anne Marie Gruden, Miss Royal Canadian Legion. All candidates appeared on stage for an opening dance number, followed by candidates’ speeches, talent presentation, swimwear and formal wear presentation and candidates’ impromptu question. Lee, five-foot-nine and 135 pounds with brown hair. and blue-green eyes, received a rousing ovation for her spectacular dance routine in the talent section of the progratii-——— ! In Saturday's SunFes! the city of Cranbrook float. Second prize went to.Colville, Wash. In-the commercial category, Century 21 won top prize with R&B Auto second. “Kettle Falls, Wash. was first in the non-commercial category. A float from Warfield took second place. In the novelty section, up the top award, with second place going to a float from the Castlegar Lions. . (‘Top prize in the children's category. went to the received the SunFest Parade Award for having the-best_while Dee Lewis took third, finishing in 44:44. the Castlegar Library picked - 25:32. Britt Edblad was first in the women’s masters testants. Laura Adams was:crowned. first princess —and Sheri te Roy was named second princess. CosNewsPhoto by Simon Burch pageant Robson-Guides and Brownies and the Castlegar Scouts placed second. : Vickie Pether won top prize as best equestrian with_ Penny Percival finishing second. Special awards went. to Gremlin of Castlegar. the Slocan Park Fall Fair float, the Robson Volunteer Fire Dept., and the Castlegar float. Also on Saturday, a total of 51 runners turned out for the annual Sunflower Run. In the 10-kilometre run, Gerald Klassen of Trail won the open men’s category finishing in 33 minutes. 53 seconds. Ken Simonen of Castlegar was second in 36:41, third was Marco Tkachuk in 37:07. ‘The men’s 19 and under category saw Don Taylor in first place with a time of 39:15, Dane Jackson of Castlegar was second in 39:23, third was Geoff Ball in 43:51 Roger Pratt won the 40 and-over-éategory finis in 34:13, second was Rob Grey in 40:30 and Ben Thor-Larsen of Castlegar was third in 40:32. Jane West won the women's open category, finishing in 50:25, second was Anne Clow in 51:22 while JoAnne Turner was third in 53:40. In the 35 and over category, Elizabeth Farenholtz was first in 40:30, Perina Sharnes was second in 46:27 n the-four-kilometre run, Joey Silva crossed the finish line first and was alsOthe-first junior with a top time of 21 minutes, Jack Hebonar was second 6veral first in the under 40 category with a finishing time of 22:08. Third was Peter DaCosta, second junior, in 22:16. Tracy Johnson, third in juniors and first girl to finish in category with a time of 28:17... “Fred Fomenoff was sixth in 29:15 and Laurie Collier was seventh in 30:04. : 5 The nei, hood around the 1300- block Forest Rd. and the 1300-block Grosvenor Place in Castlegar “has a dust problem you wouldn't believe,” said a resident of the area who took the dirty problem to Castlegar city council. Bill McKee on Tuesday night pre- sented council with a petition signed by 16 residents of the Grosvenor sub- division who say their lives are being made miserable by dust stirred up by the movement of large trailer trucks on the properties of Public. Freightways, C.P. Express and Transport and Labatt’s. McKee, who also presented council with a white rag-soiled with grimy brown dirt wiped from a neighbor's countertop, said the problem is getting worse and worse.” “Airing clothing can't be done on the west side of Forest Road. Any plush furniture we have is now stored.in the basement.” the dust from the unpaved areas then settles on the paved areas of the __ properties, only.to ‘stirred up again. He said the dust is “half-an-inch thick in all the paved areas.” But the manager of Labatt’'s, Sandy Wayman, said Thursday her company's property is paved and they try to keep it hosed down. “I had someone out there today (hosing it down),” she said. Lloyd Wilson, manager of Public Freightways, expressed surprise when told of the resident’s complaints. Houseboat fire in Nelson _ By PATRICIA LAKES Fire broke out in Nelson Saturday afternoon as a houseboat moored beside the Chako-Miko Mall went up in flames, sending clouds of smoke over the city. a The tenant of the houseboat, Law- rence Kannigan, was taken to Koot- enday Lake District Hospital for treat- ment of small burns on his shoulder. Nursing supervisor C. Gullickson said his condition. was not considered serious. Eyewitness Benjamin Yeung said he was walking into the mall about 2:40 p-m. when he heard a noise that “sounded like something collapsing”. He saw broken glass and flames coming out of the window, he said, and ran toa store owner and asked him to call the ice. The fire department responded in a matter of-minutes, Yeong said,’ but the fire spread quicly on the dry wharf. By about 4 p.m., the blaze was almost. completely out. Although there were four propane tanks in and around the houseboat, fire chief Harry Sommerville said it did not appear the fire was caused by an ex- plosion. He said the propane tanks were in tact and would be left in place for an investigation into the cause of the fire. . Two 225-litre (50 gallon) drums on the warf, apparently containing gas- oline, were also left intact due to fire- fighters’ efforts to contain the blaze. © The houseboat, one small boat and ‘Two-boathouses were destroyed, with two more boathouses-damaged on the moorage, known as Walton wharf. The that-al : will be “rehabilitated” this was his first value of the damage is still unkown, and some other boats may have been damaged. “I've never had a complaint of any kind,” he said Friday. - But Wilson did question the building of a housing subdivision in an industrial area: “I was the most surprised person in the area when’ they” allowed a sub- division in-an area that. is mostly industrial. They shouldn't have allowed it in the first place.” Wilson said the parking area on his property is not paved, but added that a row of bushes completely encloses his year and should prevent any dust from drifting into the subdivision. Wilson added his property is “60 per cent paved” and said he would like to pave the rest if it was economically feasible for his company. But he said the high cost of paving prevented him from doing so. As for the noise, Wilson asked: “How do you muffle the sound of a diesel?” He said the trucks cost a lot of money and have the best equipment possible: “We spend an enormous amount of money to keep them in top condition. They have the best mufflers possible. “There's nothing we can do except up and leave the area.” Although the residents are stirred up over the dust and want council to give that problem top priority, they are also angry about noise caused by the trucks. “CP is the worst offender. They have a refrigerator truck running all night,” McKee said. e “The air brakes (on the trucks) are loud enough to wake the damn dead. We have to abide by the noise bylaws, why the hell don’t they?” “When the area was zoned, there was supposed to be a 30-foot noise barrier (betwen the businesses and the residences).” But McKee said trucks have pushed continued on page A2 | tikes at cower oe prten __ Nloyy fires start in— arises from unpaved areas on the prop- =F ~erities of the businesses. But he added Arrow Lakes district By CasNews Staff Six new. fires were reported over 24-hours previous to. Saturday afternoon while the: fire hazard on Friday moved from high to extreme in the Arrow Lakes Forest District: Dave Fitchett, duty officer with the» “Arrow Lakes district said the fires were caused by lightning. Five of the fires are in the Castlegar area. He said the fires in the area — near Deer Park and Renata on the Lower Arrow Lakes — are mostly spot fires. The forest district currently. has crews on 95 fires — 15 of which are uncontained, Fitchett said. Problem fires for the Arrow Lakes district include the Ing fire west of Burton, the Oz fire west of Whatshan ‘Lake (southwest of Nakusp) and the $5,000 FINE Keegstra found guilty RED DEER, Alta. (CP) — Former teacher Jim Keegstra-was fined $5,000 Saturday and faces possible forfeiture of his conspiracy library after being convicted of wilfully promoting hatred against Jews. Mr. Justice John MacKenzie of the Court of Queen's Bench, in a 10-minute sentencing address, described Keegs- tra as the victim of an obsession. “He is akin to a drug addict pushing drugs who is as much a victim of the crime as a perpetrator,” MacKenzie said. Crown attolrney Bruce Fraser, who Moss fire west of Nakusp. There have bene 178 total fires to date in the Arrow. district, said Fitchett. As of Saturday 70 pieces of mobile equipment were on the fire line and 12 helicopters. - A total of 661 people were fighting fires in the district. Total hectares burned to date is 2,778. No relief is in-store for the forest district as the weather outlook is for hot and dry conditions, Fitchett said. “The bush is dried out to such extent that with any lightning we are bound to get fires,” he said. Fitchett said a campfire restriction is still in place and he advised residents to use extreme caution when travelling in the bush. accused has given decent sercie in his ity and achieve a ion of being’ faithful. to his Christian con- victions,” the judge said. He added Keegstra’s “fanaticism” may be unacceptable to other people. MacKenzie said the circumstances under which Keegstra promoted his hatred — teaching in the classroom — were serious. Keegstra lost the pri- vilege of teaching, a. profesion “he loved very much.” He said jail sentences are usually reserved for cases where the offence is recurrent. Courts looked for other had asked for the two-year sentence allowed under the law, had no immediate comment. The judge ruled that the more than 150 books, articles and pamphlets which had been seized during the in- vestigation of Keegstra will be turned over tothe Alberta Attorney General's Department for disposal. Keegstra said he used the documents | in forming his conviction that a Jewish conspiracy is out to rule the world and the Jews were behind many historic calamities. Defence lawyer Doug Christie asked that his client be given a month to pay the fine. i There has never been a conviction under this law which has been sus. tained on appeal. The judge said he had to consider though it is unlikely Keegstra offence and the trial heard a great deal of evidence about his good standing in ‘The owner of the h was i for a the “In many ways, this particular such as p In this-case, the judge said, there is no real chance Keegstra would accept the rehabilitation assistance which probation would required. Fraser had asked for a jail sentence, saying Keegstra promoted hatred in the worst possible circumstances. “The position he held in that school he took advantage of for his own pur- poses,” said Fraser. Fraser referred to the Toronto trial of publisher Ernst Zundel earlier this year. Zundel was sentenced to 15 months in jail for publishing a pam- phlet which denied the reality of the Holocaust during -the Second World War. Keegstra was impassivé during the sentence, as he was when the foreman of the jury read the verdict. ~ He and Christie started. at the jury ‘The decision came after about 30. hours of deliberations and the end of a 70-day trial which began April 9.